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No. 668,3I4. Patented Feb. l9, 190i.

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ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE ALDEN TYPEMACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TYPE-DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,314, dated February19, 190 1.

Application filed July '7, 1900. Serial No. 22,779. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABBOT AUGUSTUS Low, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Type-Distributing Apparatus, of which the following is aspecification sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to whichthe invention appertains to make and use the same.

My improvements relate to mechanism for transferring types from onechannel to another, and are designed more particularly for use inautomatic type-distributing apparatus of the class known as the Aldendistributer.

The object of my invention is to dispense with thecomparatively-complicated mechanism heretofore in use for this purposeand to render the apparatus much more simple and effective inconstruction and operation, at the same time materially lessening thecost of construction and maintenance.

My present invention is essentially an improvement or modification ofthe structure disclosed in my Patent No. 650,405, dated May 29, 19.00,in which the types are forwarded from a channel in which they aredeposited in the same relation to each other in which they come from thepress by means of a reciprocating type-pusher onto a lifter, by whichthey are transferred to and beyond the latch mechanism at the lower endsof typecontaining channels desired for the particular letters forwarded.

In my previous patent above referred to the individual channel orchannels for receiving the individual types from the lifters areinclined toward the galley-channel and a straight grooved lifter isutilized in transferring the type from the galley-channel to eachindividual channel.

The invention consists in the special construction of the lifters asherein described and claimed for the purpose of adapting them to therequirements of a machine in which the individual channels are arrangedvertically.

In the accompanying drawings I show only sufficient of the apparatus toillustrate my present invention, the other parts of the apparatus beingof the well-known form of construction and the operating and signalingapparatus, &c., being substantially the same as heretofore, as will befully understood by reference to Patent No. 212,503, issued to A. O.Richards February 18,1879, and No. 245,562, issued to T. Reeve August 9,l88l.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation through the channel and adjoiningparts, showing the lifter in its normal position, a type having justbeen forwarded thereon by the horizontal pusher, which has been againretracted. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the lifter raised by theactuating-ring. Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively side and top views of myimproved lifter.

A represents the channel into which the lines of type from the galleyare introduced. The column of type in each channel A rests upon thefloor a, over which the pusher P is made to reciprocate by suitablemechanism, thereby forwarding the lowest type in a column onto thelifter L, by which the type is raised into the individual channel I tobe supported upon the latches z'. The lifters L are actuated by the ringR precisely in the manner set'forth in the patents hereinbefore referredto. The upper side of the lifters L is formed with two type-receivingsurfaces Z l, which are at an angle to each other, the first surface Zbeing coincident with and forming a continuation of the type-floor awhen the lifter L is at rest in its normal position-that is, in itslowest position. The other type-receiving surface Z is formed at such anangle that when the lifter is raised said surface Z will extendtransversely across the individual channel I and at right angles to thespine thereof, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to raise the lowest typesquarely and evenly above the latches 't'.

The primary receiving-surface Z on the lifter L is flanked by retainingwalls or shoulders Z as in my pateiht hereinbefore referred to. Thispreliminary surface Z is preferably slotted, as shown in the drawings,so that it consists practically of opposed shoulders which support theopposite edges of the type.

The sides of the lifter L are formed with recesses Z which coincide withthe latches 11 in the sides of the individual channel I, so as not tointerfere therewith when the lifter is raised.

The construction of the latches 'L' is the same as in the Aldendistributer, and I do not claim novelty in this respect. Neither do Iclaim any noveltyin the operationof the lifter L, the mechanism foractuating the lifters being: clearly in the state of the art. Thenovelty in the construction of the lifter consists in the specificconstruction and arrangement of parts hereinafter claimed, whereby thetypes may be transferred from the vertical. galley-channel A to thevertical individual channel I.

'Heretofore the types have been picked up, manipulated, and transferredby delicate and complicated mechanism which has not always been positiveor accurate in operation, whereas by my improvements I not only dispensewith the complication of parts, but also insure a direct and positivedelivery of the types, which are not turned or deviated from the'directline of advance during the operation of transferring them from onechannel to another.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a type-distributing apparatus of the class herein designated, thecombination of the vertical type-receiving" channel A, the

pusher P, the lifter L, formed with the typelioors l, l, inclined withrelation to each other, and With the lateral recesses l the individualtype-channel I, and the latches t', i, the Whole arranged and operatingsubstantially as herein described.

ABBOT AUGUSTUS Low.

Witnesses:

D. W. GARDNER, GEO. WM. MIATT.

